Example sentences for: cease-fire

How can you use “cease-fire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then the Serbs, in defiance of a cease-fire and NATO and U.S. warnings, shelled the area around the massacre site.

  • Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.

  • Since the cease-fire, Saddam has continued to build conventional arms for these forces under the watchful eye of the U.N. inspectors.

  • Which is why it's surprising that the LAT commits the unclarity of saying that the earlier cease-fire "ended without warning in February, 1996 with a London truck bomb that killed two people," without mentioning that the explosion was attributed to the IRA.

  • The NYT reports inside that U.S. officials have been able to protect an eggshell-fragile cease-fire in Kosovo.


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